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on earth, and at our call He will balk our ca
| lamities, and, at just the right time, in the
presence Of an applauding earth and re-
| sounding heaven, will raise our dead
He will do it, He is mightier than Herod.
| He is swifter than the storm. He is grandel
than the sea. He is vaster than eternity.
And every sword of Gods omnipotence vii
of infnity be exhausted, rather than that
Gods child shall not be delivered when he
cries to him for rescue.
Suppose your child was in trouble; how
much would you endure to get him out! You
would 60 through any hardship. You would
say: 81 don't care what it will cost. must
get him out Of that trouble"
Do you think God is not so good father al
you! Seeing you are in trouble, and having
all power, will He not stretch out His arm
and deliver you9 He will. He is mighty to
save. He can level the mountain and divide
the sea- and can extinguish the fire and save
the soul. Not dim of eye, not weak Of arm, not
feeble Of resources, but with all eternity and
the universe at His feet Go and tell Jesus. Will
you2 Ye whose cheeks are wet with the night
dew OF the grave; -ye who cannot look up; -ye
sirocco; in the name Of the religion Of Jesus
Christ, which lifts every burden, and wipes
away every tear and delivers every captive,
and igtens every darkness, emplore you
now, 60 and tell Jesus
A little child went with her father, sea
Captain, to sea, and when the first storm
came the little child was very much fright
cabin and said: "Where is father! where is
fatherf" Then they told her: "Father is on
deck guiding the vessel and watching the
Storm" The little child Immediately re-
turned to her berth and said: "It's
all right, for fathers on deck" Oh,
ye who are tossed and driven in this
world, up by the mountains aud down by the
valleys, and at your wits end, want You to
know the Lord God is guiding the ship. Your
the darkness into the harbor. Trust in the
Lord. Go and tell Jesus. Let me say that
ifyou do not, you will have no comfort here,
and you will forever he an outcast and
wanderer. Your death will be a sorrow.
Your eternity will be disaster.
But if you 60 to Him for pardon and SYM
pathy, all is we'll. Everything will brighten
up, and joy will come to the heart and sor-
row will depart; your sins will be forgiven
and your foot will touch the upward path;
and the shining messengers that report above
what is done here will tell it until the great
arches Of God resound with the glad tidings,
if now, with contrition and full truStful-
ness Of soul, you will only 60 and tell Jesus
But am oppressed, when look over this
audience, at the prospect that some may not
take this counsel, and 20 away unblessed. 1
cannot help asking: What will be the destiny
Of these people,! So never care whether it
come into the text or not I never leave my
place on this platform without telling them
that now is the accepted time, and to some,
perhaps, the last time.
Xerxes looked off on his army. There
were two million men-perhaps the finest
army ever marshaled. Xer1es rode along
the lines, reviewed them, came back, stood on
some high point, looked Off upon the two
million men, and burst into tears At that
moment, when everybody supposed he would
be in the greatest e1ultation, he broke down
in grief. They asked him why he
wept. "Ah," he said, ~ weep at
the thought that so soon all this host
will be dead" So I stand looking off
upon this host of immortal men and women,
and realize the fact, as perhaps no man can,
unless he has been in similar position, that
soon the places which know you now will
know you no more, and you will be gone
whitherl whither7 There is q stirring idea
which the poet put in very peculiar verse
when he said:
"'Tis not for man to trife: life Is brief,
And sin is here;
Our age Is but falling leaf
A dropping tear.
Not many lives, but only one have We
One, only one;
How sacred should that one life ever be-
That narrow span."